Magic Harvest Food, Folkore and Society

Name: Magic Harvest Food, Folkore and Society
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ISBN: 9780745621968

ISBN-10: 0745621961

ISBN-13: 9780745621968

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: Piero Camporesi, Joan Hall

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The Magic Harvest offers a wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe. Focusing on Italy, the text examines the social symbolism of food, and its associated rituals.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/2/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.17" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English







Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy



The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar



The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science



Food and Popular Culture



Dietary Geography and Social History



City Cooking and Country Cooking






Bourgeois Cooking in the 19th Century: Between Tradition and Renewal



Concentrated Broth



The Demon of the Hearth



Shopping for Food



The Age of the Soya Bean



The Great Transformation



Born Under Libra


Appendices



Diet and Literature



List of Authors


Notes and References


Glossary


Index